2, for "occupational disease" should be divided into:
① Occupational diseases in spoken language. According to the understanding of "doing a job is tiring", people who have been engaged in a certain profession for a long time will consciously or unconsciously reflect their professional characteristics in terms of language, living habits and ways of doing things. For example, when leading cadres retire, they occasionally feel like giving orders when they speak; Teachers will inevitably talk in life, giving people the impression that they are teaching. This kind of occupational disease is an occupational disease in the popular sense, which has no serious harm to body and mind.
② Occupational diseases in medical sense. Occupational disease refers to the diseases caused by workers in enterprises, institutions and individual economic organizations who are exposed to dust, radioactive substances and other toxic and harmful substances in their professional activities. The laws of all countries have provisions for the prevention of occupational diseases. Generally speaking, all diseases that meet the legal requirements can be called occupational diseases.
The most common occupational diseases are pneumoconiosis, occupational poisoning and occupational dermatosis.
There are five characteristics of occupational diseases in China, namely:
There are many people exposed to occupational hazards and a large number of patients;
Occupational hazards are widely distributed in the industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises are seriously harmful;
The mobility of occupational hazards is large, and the transfer of hazards is serious;
Occupational diseases are hidden and delayed, and their harm is often ignored.
The economic losses caused by occupational hazards are huge and far-reaching.